Kyl: GOP Will Not Filibuster Kagan

Written by FrumForum Editors on Monday May 17, 2010

The Senate Judiciary Committee's second-ranking Republican, Jon Kyl, has said that Kagan's case is not extreme enough to warrant a filibuster:

"The filibuster should be relegated to extreme circumstances, and I don't think Elena Kagan represents that," Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CBS’s "Face the Nation."

Kyl voted to confirm Kagan to be solicitor general, the top lawyer who argues the administration's cases before the Supreme Court. But Kagan shouldn't be count on his vote again, he said.

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